Cement price rise 2.5% in Morocco
The price of a bag of cement in Morocco will rise between 2-2.5 per cent to MAD1400/t (US$170), mainly on the back of higher fuel prices. In addition, cement stocks have decreas...
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Saudi Cement recommends dividend
Saudi Cement Co’s board of directors has recommended paying a dividend of SAR3.5 per share for first six months of 2014, the firm said in a bourse filing on Sunday. Shareholders...
PPC: first-half cement sales edge higher
PPC announced its group cement sales were two per cent higher for the first half of the year to the end of March 2014. Improvements in export sales and the consolidation of sale...
Iran monthly production update
Iran produced 4.501Mt of cement in the first calendar month of the current Iranian calendar year (21 March 2014 - 20 April 2015), according to its Ministry of Industry, Mines an...
Lafarge Zambia plans to double capacity
Lafarge Zambia plans to double capacity by adding another production line at its Chilanga cement plant, as the country's leading cement producer seeks to tap domestic market gro...
OCC quarterly profit affected by lower output
Oman Cement Co (OCC) reported a 47 per cent decline in net profit to OMR3.70m (US$9.61m) for the first three months of the year as a planned kiln shut down for expansion works a...
Vicat improves cement shipments by more than 12%
Vicat's first quarter turnover increased by 9.2 per cent to €536m, which represents an underlying improvement of 14 per cent.
Holcim's results boosted by mild winter in Europe
Holcim's first quarter turnover declined by 5.4 per cent to CHF4,088m (€3,342m), but on a like-for-like basis, there was a 7.8 per cent increase while measured in euros the turn...
Saudi Cement: first-quarter net profit declines
Saudi Cement Co posted a 16 per cent decline in net profit for the first three months of this year due to lower domestic demand and losses from an associate company.
Semen Indonesia eyes Middle East & Africa investment
PT Semen Indonesia, the country’s leading producer, is looking at expanding its presence into the Middle East and Africa region by developing factories there in 2016, CEO Dwi So...